In November last year, a man struck a woman with a steel bar and killed her outside a hospital in China’s Fujian Province. Later, he justified his actions to the police by saying that he attacked her because she was small and alone, and he was venting his anger after a dispute with a colleague. To the casual observer, it…
The outgoing US President Donald Trump has signed an omnibus bill that contains the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 into law on 27 December 2020, making it the official policy of the U.S government despite China’s protest. It is another strong bipartisan support for Tibetan people by US Congress and the White House before the end of the…
Lung [Tib: rLung] means air or wind, and Ta [Tib: rTa] is horse. So, Lung-ta means an air-horse or wind horse. It is a divine horse to lift our energy and life force and carry our message to the gods and deities.If you happen to visit any Tibetan settlements or villages, your eyes will be greeted first with colorful flags…
By Tenzin Younten,* TPI Research Intern Despite more than sixty years military invasion of independent Tibet and East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) by People’s liberation army of Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Gross human rights violation, massive crackdown and mass internment of Uighur Muslim peoplecontinue unabated. Prominent scholars and experts have debated in recent years over the motives and the implications of…
Trainings and relocations of Tibetan nomads and farmers are aimed more at political stability than poverty alleviation. Recently, Chinese authorities declared a “major victory” in poverty alleviation in Tibet. It is imperative to assess how the anti-poverty campaign has been carried out, in view of the recent reports of Xinjiang-like coercive labor trainings being implemented in the region. As a…
China’s ‘Great Wall of Concrete’ damming rivers sourced on the Tibetan Plateau threatens downstream countries With the recent signing of the Tibet Policy and Support Act by the president of the United States, which also addresses the strategic importance of the Tibetan Plateau, whose rivers remain one of the major sources of water to more than a billion people living…
The relations between Tibet, India and China are best illustrated in the words of Claude Arpi, a noted historian and journalist who has written a series of important books on Tibet, India and China, including, The Fate of Tibet: When the Big Insects Eats Small Insects. Arpi writes: “It is interesting to note that in the history of the three nations, Tibet…
Every infrastructure development along the Indo-Tibet border would bring a new degree of threat to India’s border security. But the construction of a ‘super dam’ in Metok means the threat expands all the way to Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The close proximity of the location to India’s border means any sudden release of water from the dam could quickly reach…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made great strides in its overall economic development, but it continues to be an authoritarian party-state resolute in asserting its complete dominance to curb freedom of expression, right to information, association and religion. The CCP censors the internet and maintains intensive surveillance apparatus in the form of facial recognition technology and Global Positioning System (GPS) coordination in its…
The longest river in western Tibet is about to face another round of assaults from Chinese dams. According to a report (29 November 2020) published in the Global Times, a CCP mouthpiece, the Chinese government plans to construct a ‘Super Hydropower Dam’ on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet in its 14th Five Year Plan(2021-2025). The report, absurdly stated that the hydropower…
Revealed: China’s digital army make thousands of Facebook comments to disrupt the online live streaming of Geneva Forum 2020 The Chinese government has one of the most comprehensive propaganda networks in the world, aggressively working to disseminate misinformation and influence how it is viewed from outside and within its borders. The state sponsored troll machinery, notoriously known as the…
From a realistic perspective, strategic infrastructure as a tool for consolidating supremacy in the disputed territories implies both an offensive posture as well as a defence mechanism. Offensive because in the event of a border war with India, the new railway will fundamentally boost the manoeuvring capability of Chinese troops and weapons to be moved within a short time on…
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on October 29 wrapped up the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee in Beijing. The gathering of the top Chinese leaders in one of the most important event in the CCP’s political calendar laid out the five-year plan for the year 2021 to 2025. Although a summary communique was issued at the end…
Like empires of the past, the Communist Party of China is using language policy to ensure its hegemony By TENZIN TSULTRIM And KARMA TENZIN, Asiatimes.com, 16 October 2020 Transportation has played several different roles in the rise of civilizations and also in national defense. For instance, the efficient utilization of roads helped the Roman Empire rule the ancient world. The good network of…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced the concurrent designation of Assistant Secretary Robert A. Destro of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor to serve as the United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. The appointment of Mr. Destro gains significance in light of the upcoming November U.S. Presidential elections, with the country’s foreign policy with…